00:00Political leader of the Movement for Social Justice David Abdullah is objecting to Prime Minister Kamala Pissad-Bissassa's position on
00:08Cuba.
00:08At the opening of the 50-year heads of government meeting of the Caribbean community, Pissad-Bissassa said Trinidad and
00:16Tobago would not support what she described as Cuba's dictatorial regime, even as she expressed empathy for the Cuban people.
00:24She was really speaking not for us in the Caribbean and she certainly was not speaking for us here in
00:32this hall and for all of those in Trinidad and Tobago who support Cuba, but she was speaking really to
00:39the audience of Rubio and Trump.
00:42He also criticized her planned attendance at a summit in Miami this Friday convened by U.S. President Donald Trump,
00:50describing the meeting with several conservative Latin American leaders as downright dangerous.
00:56All the right-wing presidents in Latin America, Billy from Argentina, Bukele from El Salvador, the new person who just
01:04got elected in Honduras as a result of Trump telling Hondurans, if you don't vote for him, then I will
01:11sanction you entirely.
01:12And of course, Ecuador, which is extremely backward and reactionary, the new president in Bolivia, right-wing, and so on
01:20and so on.
01:20And that is a company which Mrs. Fosadi says she will be keeping extremely right-wing.
01:26And what Trump is doing is seeking to have in Latin America, the Caribbean, his own right-wing neo-fascist
01:34cabal.
01:35Abdullah further condemned recent attacks on Iran, saying they were contrary to international law.
01:42There was absolutely no decision of the U.N. Security Council that said Iran posed a threat to world peace
01:50or that Iran's development of their nuclear capacity, which was not up to weaponry, that that posed a risk and
02:01therefore Iran had to be bombed.
02:04The comments came during an MSJ-hosted public forum held in solidarity with Cuba.
02:10Cuban ambassador to Trinidad and Tobago, Gustavo Daniel Veliz-Olivares, echoed similar sentiments.
02:17Cuba called for an aim to the new aggression by the United States and Israel against Iran.
02:26He later explained his country has suffered at the hands of the U.S. for decades.
02:30The economic commercial and financial and financial blockade imposed by the United States against Cuba is considered the longest and
02:41most severed sanctioned regime in the modern history.
02:47The longest and most severed sanctions regime in the modern history.
03:02He insisted Cuba remains prepared to defend its sovereignty.
03:07The Cuban revolution today finally is prepared to defend its truth in any battle that will be necessary.
03:15In recent months, the United States has maintained economic sanctions on Cuba while defending the measures as necessary to encourage
03:24political reform.
03:25Cuban officials, however, argue the restrictions continue to place severe strain on the island's economy and its people.
03:33Arvishita Mwari Rupnaraim, TV6 News.
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